Word: payloads
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...PAYLOAD: Passenger ? 250 lbs. Cargo...
...carriers in the Arabian sea - a distance that limits them to a single sortie each day and with a lighter bomb load necessitated by the heavier fuel load. Basing the same fighters at bases around Mazar would allow them to fly three sorties a day and carry a heavier payload to the Taliban frontlines. And the psychological impact of the U.S. basing its war inside Afghanistan may help focus the minds of potential Taliban turncoats...
Person of the Week CAST AWAY Australian Prime Minister John Howard wanted a Norwegian cargo ship full of asylum-seekers to take its payload elsewhere. The freighter's crew rescued more than 400 mostly Afghan refugees from a sinking Indonesian ferry. But Howard's hard line kept them in limbo for days...
...tame they would eat from children's hands?if children were clever enough to avoid the watchful patrolmen. One group has: the Pigeon Alliance. Week after week, a grandmotherly woman marches through the square with a bulging shoulder bag. From it pours a thin golden stream of corn. Her payload deposited, the lady scurries away to meet co-conspirator June?she doesn't want her full name revealed?at a white Volkswagon parked a block distant. Now it's June's turn to do the surreptitious feeding (pictured above). "They've been here for centuries," mourns June, who was born...
Next month a B-52 will take off from Edwards Air Force Base in southern California carrying a payload that could spell the death of in-flight entertainment and plastic omelettes. Leaving the Mojave Desert, the crew will head for U.S. Navy test waters in the Pacific. On order, they will release a Pegasus missile from under their right wing and send it roaring up into the sky. At 31 km, more than double civil aviation altitude, a black, windowless, pilotless sliver of finned metal shaped like a flattened dart will separate from the Pegasus' nose and scream down into...